bloodlust
pronunciation
How to pronounce bloodlust in British English:
UK [ˈblʌdlʌst]
How to pronounce bloodlust in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- a desire for bloodshed
Word Origin
- bloodlust (n.)
- 1847 (Bulwer Lytton), also blood-lust, from blood (n.) + lust (n.).
Example
- 1. But that was never going to satisfy the country 's corporate bloodlust .
- 2. The red represents passion , bloodlust and true love .
- 3. I will learn to teach you how to control your bloodlust .
- 4. They became furious marauders , driven to raid villages and caravans to sate their bloodlust and procure sacrificial victims for their demonic master .
- 5. The most stinging criticism of congressional efforts to impeach mr. clinton is that they are partisan , motivated not by a desire to uphold the sanctity of law in the face of presidential perjury , but by political bloodlust .